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Date Posted: Tuesday, May 06, 09:25:49 GMT-4
Author: Ruth Jarvis
Subject: Barbican

I've just read, in the Stories section, about the Palace Hotel in Southport and a lift that worked despite being disconnected and it brought to mind a tale told to me by a London cabbie. Years ago, I rented a room in a flat in the Lauderdale Tower of the Barbican in the City. A cab driver taking me back there one day said that, when the Barbican was being constructed, all sorts of strange things happened (I'm pretty sure he told me he was one of the builders at that time). He told me about the Shakespeare Tower specifically. Apparently, there were all sorts of accidents (I think one was fatal), not unusual you would think on such a big project, but a lot of the builders were hardened old hands and there was a general sense of unease amongst them. There were too many accidents and too many of them were 'stupid' or could not be explained. It wasn't just this. There was an unpleasant 'feeling' about the whole thing that none of them could shake off. Things went missing, equipment that was locked away securely at night in perfect order was found damaged the next day. 'Things' were seen. Apparently, all the flats were affected in varying degrees, but the Shakespeare seemed to be the most troubled. The most shocking thing of all, the cabbie told me, was a lift that had not yet been connected in any way in this Tower actually started going on its own, causing yet another accident. Part of the Barbican is, the cabbie told me, built on the site of a medieval graveyard and by the end of the build they were all left wondering if this is why they had the trouble. I myself (and the elderly Pakistani gentleman I rented from who was in exile from his own country) encountered many things that simply could not be explained in our flat in the Lauderdale.

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